Regional Factors and Innovativeness - An Empirical Analysis of Four German Industries

Tom Broekel () and Thomas Brenner ()

No 917, Papers in Evolutionary Economic Geography (PEEG) from Utrecht University, Section of Economic Geography

Abstract: A growing body of work emphasizes the importance of regional factors for regional innovativeness. In this paper, about seventy variables approximating the social-economic characteristics of regions are aggregated to twelve regional factors. In four industry-specific set-ups their influence on firms' innovativeness is tested. The study confirms that inter-industrial differences exist in the importance of these factors. In the empirical analyses a log-linear model is compared with a linear approach. While both are theoretically problematic it is shown that the log-linear model performs better in the empirical assessment.

Keywords: regional innovation performance; regional innovativeness; knowledge production function; industry comparison; German regions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O18 R11 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cse, nep-geo, nep-knm, nep-sbm and nep-ure
Date: 2009-10, Revised 2009-10

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